The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1887-02-23

need Them both. 1hey nave tner streets
well worked by the "chain-gang." The
gang is longer on Monday than any other
day, having Sunday to recruit. The slag
Is pounded and the banquettes and streets
are paved with it.
On 10 Atlanta requires but six hours.
The great Georgian city, the pride OF the
South, has not been overrated. Substantial
| ly built and beautifully laid out, she is in
deed the Empire City of this section. a
railroad centre, and manufacturing and
commercial city, she stands quietly among
the Georgia hills and wins her laurels, one
by one Then there are Macon and Sa-
vannah in all their beauty, wealth and re-
| finement-and others too numerous to
mention.
To South Georgia the Northern man
is now turning his attention, just along
the Florida frontier. Coming down the
| Central Road into lovely green section,
where the palmetto shrub covers the
ground, and the tall pines and magnolias
wave above, there are many villages OF
progress and beauty-receiving their sup
port from star, rosin, pitch, turpentine
and lumber" as we used to say IN the old
geographical school-days. Just on the
Georgia Plain, adjoining Florida, is Du-
Pont, half way between the Gull and the
ocean-noted for its "air and water" The
| air is the salt currents that sweep across,
and its water is clear, soft and pure. 1t Is
for these that visitors come. The breezes
are flied with the pine odors, Numbers
of sawmills are in the vicinity, and numer-
ous turpentine "stills' dot the country
Morning, noon and night the great lum-
Der trains are passing, one out OF sight,
another in continuously. DUPONT is pros
porous except in her school interests. Like
many other places in this great State this
desirable village has no school. Because
Georgia does not provide for her little ones
as does Mississippi because she does not
provide her more advanced ones with A. q
Ms ard 1. /. q C.'s as does our own loved
State, because wool ol-hatism is rife in the
land.
1 found the people all over the State
with one accord proud of Bill Arp. Ii he
goes on the principle of liking because he
is liked, then indeed is he in love with his
own people.
The estimate, commercially here upon
a young lady is the number of turpentine
crops that her father can control. Ten
thousand boxes constitute crop. A little
place is cut in the side of the tree, then
dug out 80 az hold quart or so. Then
Il
bark above leading trough-like to the box.
Thus are the drippings caught, dipped out
and taken to the still. A large tree will
supply three or four boxes at a time. Some
of the older trees have been boxed to a
considerable height, new boxes having
been made yearly. On moonlight night
they present a ghostly appearance, the
white resonous face pale in the shaded
woodlands. These have given rise to many
curious legend and ghostly tale.
A rather touching incident occurred
down at one of the saw mills few days
since. A Georgian, of heart and soul, was
working away, when a neighbor at his side
spoke disrespectfully Of Mr.. Jefferson Da-
Wis, adding an oath. The young man
turned full upon him, and slapping him in
the face, said: "Do you dare speak this
way-I will resent it as quickly il he
were my own father" The fellow had
him brought before the magistrate, and
fined. "What DO you know of Mr.. Davis?"
asked bystander "What do | know of
him what do l know of him? My
mother says he is the greatest man that
ever lived. | know all about him. Did
he not come through here last year Did
not the cars stop at the tank, and did not
he come out and bow to us just as polite as
any home man could do and did not his
daughter come out and stand by him to
show the Georgia girls how to stand by
their pas when they are old and feeble
What do / know OF him? | know every
thing that is good of HIM, and no man shall
cues him or about him as long as | have
fist that can smash nose" He walked
away the pine straw glued to his shoes,
and his heart swelling with indignation
because he did not "hit him again." 1t is
unnecessary to say that he had hackers
enough to lift the fine. Next to Bill Arp
the average Georgian loves Mr.. Davis. Bill
Arp is right about the air and water of his
own loved State. He is right about the
fine farms OF ours, the Jerseys, etc. In all
Georgia / did not see so fine Jersey as
the one reared right at Jackson, by Mrs.
Sallie ID. Echols, which was purchased by
Col. Hemingway, and afterwards bought
by A. McKimbrough, of Lefore county.
Our farms and stock and school are ahead
of Georgia, but she is ahead on turpentine,
hotels and big cities. She has more North
ern visitors, and more COOLERS. while We
have more cotton and less fertilization.
There are some more things / could say in
little family talk to THE CLARION, but
Col. Power is so careless about laying the
paper around all over these Southern
States, and don't want these Georgia peo-
pie to think Bill Arp can outdo Missis-
sippian on politeness.
SALLIE B. MORGAN.